Tales from Yemeni children: Between the dream of the school and the reality of missiles

Tales from Yemeni children: Between the dream of the school and the reality of missiles

The dreams of children in Yemen have changed. After their dreams were like the dreams of our children in the region and the world, the dreams of children in Yemen have become strange because a child Yemen is lying between three darkness, the darkness of hunger, the darkness of cholera and the darkness of Saudi fighter jets.

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One of them dreams of surviving after losing his friends; another dreams of death to catch up with his parents who lost them as a result of coalition raids, while a third carrying a picture of his mother and tear of the eye tells heartbreaking dreams, clutching the image he wants to enter, opening his arms to exhort his mother. , To address his mother by saying when are you outing as my father promised me.

The suffering of Yemeni children living in the range of Saudi rockets does not stop there, but it affects all aspects of life from malnutrition, tuberculosis and cholera. Hunger and cholera kill 80% of Yemen’s children, not the end of education and school seats. As one of their games, after the targeting of 775 schools and institutes, as well as the exit of a large number of schools from service because they occur in areas of engagement or adjacent areas.

As the new school year approaches, 4.5 million children in Yemen may not be able to return to their schools, UNICEF said, noting that the reason students are not allowed to return to school is because teachers have not been paid for nearly a year. The salaries of government employees in Yemen have been suspended since August 2016 following a decision by the outgoing and outgoing President Abdurbo Mansour Hadi to transfer the Central Bank of Yemen from the capital Sana’a to the city of Aden.

The burden of bloody war amidst the world’s largest humanitarian crisis has left more than 2 million out of the 12.5 million children in Yemen suffering from severe famine, according to UNICEF, with 80% of them needing urgent assistance against the backdrop of the worst outbreak of the cholera epidemic. All this under harsh conditions in the Yemeni hospitals, which almost collapse for the large number of patients and injured and the scarcity of material and human resources, according to a report published by the Daily Telegraph.
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“The co-existence of older adults and young cohabitation is small,” he says, but it does not apply to Yemeni children in their second apartment. The situation of these children, 80 percent of whom need urgent help, according to the latest report by the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF), is quite different. You see them several teams. Some of them play the game of the doctor and the patient. The sick child comes to the doctor’s friend and tells him about his illness. The doctor tells him that it is a cholera epidemic, so the child returns and asks him about the cause of the illness. He gives him an empty bottle that symbolizes the medicine, and the patient takes some of the papers collected by the road as a doctor’s fee.

Another team, divided into two parts, plays a game of war or aggression, but they differ each time at the start of who will be the Yemeni army and who will be the Saudi army. The game sometimes begins with mutual consent, and sometimes it does not start if both parties insist on being the Yemeni army, but they always end up with the words “surrender yourself, saudi”.

A third group, whose childhood is innocent, plays the teacher and the student. The teacher explains the lesson to his friends, while the rest sit in front of their young teacher and answer him with his questions. He tries to conceal his inability with expressions of reprimand. He seems to have heard it from his teacher when he was in school. The real.

The suffering of childhood is one, and if the parents’ affiliations are different, even those whose parents belong to pro-aggression parties are asking their parents about the food and drink they promised (breaking the eye) from the Saudi planes passing through the “harmony”. They come back to their mother’s arms to ask them to eat again. One of these mothers answers with a smile that masks a lot of anxiety: “Next time.” He leaves his mother’s bosom after the sound of the planes disappears and returns with friends who are used to these sounds, just as this child used his mother’s phrase “next time”.

The suffering of the children of Yemen today is a major humanitarian crime, where they bear the burdens of the Saudi aggression on their country, so that the scenes of killing and targeting these children were not seen in Palestine only by the Israeli entity, and we do not exaggerate if we say that the Saudi killing is more deadly,

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These sufferings, which are the watchdog of many jurists around the world, will remain a disgrace to humanity and an extra ordinary betrayal to to all international laws that protect the rights of children in war and peace, and between shame and treachery, the will of the international community is subject to the dictates of the Saudi authorities, and the American successor in the aggression based on Yemen.

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